Thursday, June 28, 2012

It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.

Boy, Chief Justice Roberts really doesn't care about poor people, you know? If they want to vote to burn down their own houses, he'll let 'em. It's refreshingly anti-paternalistic, but also... kind of castle-in-the-sky. Congress has become increasingly incapable of hacking through the tangled thickets of rank, over-grown legal code. People had kind of hoped that the Court would help matters by cutting the Gordian Knot. But the Chief Justice doesn't fancy himself an Alexander the Great, to take sword in hand and destroy the puzzle for us.